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Wednesday, November 24, 2010

More awards, draft stuff and other links

Kuechly is a finalist for the Butkus award. An interesting note in the article also mentions that the team is taking a bus to Syracuse. We used to fly, but our last trip resulted in a late arrival. Maybe they feel the bus will be more reliable.

I couldn't watch the game, but saw we got outrebounded a lot, which gives me some cause for concern.

I'm most comfortable with this team when Trapani is our leading scorer, but that said it's still early and I haven't had a chance to watch any games live. I just can't shake Jackson's inconsistencies from the past, even though, as the recap seems to suggest, he's our most explosive/gamechanging player when he's on.

Jackson is pretty clutch and hit all the shots at the end of the game he took. He single-handedly carried BC to victory the last 5 minutes or so of the game. The concerning aspects of the game include the rebounding. They got utterly destroyed on the boards. Plus they need to close out games better. That foul on the 3 pointer by Trapani was extremely stupid. He's a senior, he should know better, esp. when BC has a 4 point lead! And let's not get into the defense that led to the blown layup to tie the game. Ugly. With that said though, BC was impressive in grinding out a hard fought victory. Seeing the way Wisconsin played today, a victory tomorrow for BC is not out of the question at all.

“It’s a fine line between winning and losing,” Turgeon said. “I just think Boston College was great. They were much more into it than our guys were. They wanted it a lot more than we did. We’ve got a lot of growing up to do.”